Save Internet Freedom

Global internet freedom is more important than ever before, but the current administration in the United States is threatening to dismantle the Open Technology Fund - the most effective tool Congress has in the fight to safeguard the internet as a secure democratic space.

The US Agency for Global Media, under the leadership of new CEO Michael Pack, is currently withholding $20 million in Congressionally allocated internet freedom funds from OTF. As a result, on July 31, OTF was forced to halt 49 of its 60 internet freedom projects, impacting 80% of the organization's critical work helping human rights advocates, journalists, and members of the most vulnerable communities. This forced cutoff jeopardizes the lives of millions of people worldwide who depend on OTF-supported tools to access the internet and news, and threatens the livelihood of countless individuals who rely on funding from OTF to help promote internet freedom.

You can help. The internet freedom community has organized a relief fund through Open Collective to provide bridge funds to OTF projects whose contracts are now frozen.

Donate to #SaveInternetFreedom today. Take action now to ensure people around the world are still able to speak, think, and worship freely online.

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DC Superior Court Affirms the Open Technology Fund’s Board of Directors; Rejects USAGM’s Unauthorized Attempt to Take Over Independent Non-Profit (Press Release)

Last updated: 2020-10-16 16:01

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Al Smith
The Tor Project
Samaneh Tajalizadeh
ICANN
Laura Moy
Georgetown University Law Center
Qiang Xiao
School of Information, UC Berkeley
Emmanuele Somma
Partito Pirata in Italia (President of the Permanent Congress)
Miguel De icaza
Microsoft
Mohamad Najem
SMEX
Wendy Seltzer
Jonathan Penn
University of Cambridge
David Weinberger
Ben Cheng
Internet Society Hong Kong
Rachael Jolley
Index on Censorship
Javier Cavanilles
IFF
Mutale Nkonde
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Chris Lawrence
Grant for the Web
Rebecca MacKinnon
Michael Dessen
Professor, University of California, Irvine
Jillian York
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Nathalie Marechal
Ranking Digital Rights
Shariya Algama
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Alexei Abrahams
Citizen Lab
Niels ten Oever
DATACTIVE Research Group at University of Amsterdam
Zachary Weinberg
UMass-Amherst
Pierce Stanley
Council on Foreign Relations
Christopher Coleman
University of Denver
Nicholas Doiron
Tufts University
Maksym Lunochkin
Digital Security Lab Ukraine
Ron Deibert
Citizen Lab
Emma Hornick
University of Iowa
Mykola Kostynyan
FreeNet Ukraine Coalition
Masashi Nishihata
Lulu Keng
Open Culture Foundation
Antonela Debiasi
The Tor Project
Marianne Díaz Hernandez
Derechos Digitales
Allen Gunn
Aspiration Tech
Tessa Menatian
Media Democracy Fund
John Hering
Lookout & The Hering Foundation
Dr Clara Brekke
Durham University
Ken Montenegro
National Lawyers Guild
Arzu Geybulla
Azerbaijan Internet Watch
Julia Reda
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Arthit Suriyawongkul
Thai Netizen Network
Ivan Sigal
Global Voices
Iryna Chulivska
Digital Security Lab Ukraine
Dan Gillmor
Arizona State University
Belen Febres
Simon Fraser University
Joshua Shepperd
University of Colorado at Boulder
Meghan McDermott
CUNY Law
Dongfang Han
China Labour Bulletin
Luke Stark
Microsoft Research
Mallory Knodel
Center for Democracy & Technology
Libby Liu
Open Technology Fund (Disputed)
Psi Vesely
UC Berkeley, cLabs
Catherine Liu
UC Irvine
Julia Kloiber
Superrr
Keri Lloyd
Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Valerie Frissen
SIDN fund/Leiden university
Alexa Koenig
UC Berkeley Human Rights Center
Mila Salahuddin
My future
Qiang Xiao
China Digital Times
Harlo Holmes
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Jessica Fjeld
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Luis Villa
Co-founder, Tidelift; board member emeritus, Open Source Initiative
Claire Vergerio
Princeton University
Salil Vadhan
Harvard University
Emma Humphries
Mozilla
Josh Levy
Center for Digital Resilience
Bryan Nunez
Lotus R
Citizen Lab
Miller Michelle
Coworker
Riana Pfefferkorn
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Alexander Howard
Digital Democracy Project, Demand Progress Education Fund
Wendy Hanamura
Internet Archive
Myra Abdallah
Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality
Emma Prest
OCCRP
Mike Linksvayer
GitHub
Jonathan Nelson
HACKFund.com
Bill Marczak
Citizen Lab
Jennifer Brody
Access Now
Mohammad Ghaffarian
United for Iran
Baobao Zhang
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Harley Balzer
Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
Francesca Musiani
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Ben Scott
Reset
Daniel Mahoney
Internet Systems Consortium
Kat Duffy
Diep Dao
SaveNET - Internet Freedom for Vietnam
Felicia Anthonio
Access Now
Caroline Sinders
Harvard Kennedy School
Cole Gleason
Carnegie Mellon University
Eileen Donahoe
Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator
Ming-Syuan Ho
Taiwan Association for Human Rights
Sofia Arroyo
EDGE Funders Alliance
Rebecca MacKinnon
Bo-Xiang You
National Taiwan University
Jana Wichmann
Board member Open Knowledge Foundation Germany
Raquel Renno
ARTICLE 19
Kendra Albert
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Li-Lun Wang
Google
Danny O'Brien
Abdallah Alsalmi
BBC
Linghao Zhang
ETH Zurich
Paola Ricaurte
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Sarah Morris
Open Technology Institute
Barbie Zelizer
Center for Media at Risk at the University of Pennsylvania
Todd Davies
Stanford University
Andrea Lampros
UC Berkeley Human Rights Center
Bernard Tyers
OTF Advisory Council
Javier Garza
Freelance journalist
Ivan Sigal
Global Voices
Katherine Maher
Wikimedia Foundation, CEO
Judith Olson
University of California Irvine
Marcus Michaelsen
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Lokman Tsui
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paul Dourish
University of California, Irvine
Marina Fedorova
UCI
Xavier Canal Masjuan
Red Hat
Yen-Tung Lin
UC Berkeley
Mishi Choudhary
Software Freedom Law Center
Lucy Bernholz
Nehalenniæ OUDIN
Sorbonne Université, LIP6
Juan Rivera Palomino
Universidad de San Marcos-Lima-Peru
Susan Landau
Tufts University
Allison McDonald
University of Michigan
Craig Aaron
Free Press Action
Nicole Leaver
Tufts University
Me Me Thein
Myanmar People Alliance (Shan State)
Michael Meehan
Former BBG Governor
Mario Hoffmann
HTW Berlin
Lauren Bridges
Annenberg School for Communication
Lobsang Gyatso Sither
Tibet Action Institute
Vivian Zuniga
Internet Freedom Festival Advisory Board
Irene Poetranto
The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
Kevin Wed
DigitalOcean
Mehrad Sheida
Amar Ashar
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
John Sarapata
Google
Lex Gill
Citizen Lab
Maame Akua Marfo
Young Feminist Fund (FRIDA), Young Feminist Collective (Ghana)
Britt Paris
Rutgers University
Wojtek Bogusz
Front Line Defenders
Peter Micek
Access Now
Pia Mancini
Open Collective
Alexandre Franke
GNOME
Clinton Gibson
University of California Davis
Alexey Rusakov
Red Hat
SC Leung
ISOC Hong Kong
Michael J. Oghia
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
Stephanie Taylor
Progressive Change Institute
Nedal Alsalman
Bahrain rights
Chad Sansing
Mozilla Foundation
Max Hunter
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
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